The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Be nice to everyone and tell jokes.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

It doesn't matter as long as you're there to enjoy the atmosphere. How else am I an entertainer?

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.

There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.